Chinese troops were out in force in Lhasa on Sunday At least 80 people have been killed in unrest following protests by Tibetans against Chinese rule, the Tibetan government in exile says. Indian-based officials said the figure was confirmed by several sources, even though China put the death toll at 10.

The Dalai Lama called for an international inquiry into China's crackdown, accusing it of a "rule of terror" and "cultural genocide".

Chinese troops were out in force in Lhasa, Tibet's main city, on Sunday.

Hong Kong Cable TV reported that about 200 military vehicles, each carrying 40 to 60 armed soldiers, had driven into the city.

windows broken. Some reports have the death toll over 100. The Chinese have the towns on lock down, with armed guards and tanks patrolling the streets. All the while, the "official" Chinese "news" says the Tibetens are the ones killing innocents.

Tibet is considered to be the place of the yang pole to the yin pole (Black Mesa) that lies here on Turtle Island within the Four Sacred Mountains of the Southwest.

When the yang pole is off balance because of greed, anger, hate and fear and violence, and the traditional keepers are assasinated and repressed, the yin pole also wobbles in profound distress, it's sacred uranium being gouged out of the Earth's breast and then used to make a vast number of nuclear WMDs and create poisonous, mutant waste that will last 10,000 years.

In a way, at least if one regards this situation through the Doctrine of Correspondence, this imbalance at the metaphysical yin-yang poles mirrors the imbalance and distress between men and women.

So for me - loving this land and this earth and striving to be in right relationship with its people and all its plant and animal creatures -- the caring for the people and land of Tibet is strong.

A snippet from the Internets -

A POLE APART FROM TIBET:

"Black Mesa is one of those places that can cause a person to think the world is upside down, for it embodies a diabolical loop of destruction."

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